The president of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW), Alhaji Musiliu Akinsanya (aka MC Oluomo), has described the federal government’s decision to toll some highways as a welcome development.
Akinsanya said it would enhance the maintenance of the roads and make them last longer.
According to Akinsanya, tolling of highways is not synonymous with Nigerian alone, stating that highway tolling is a norm in some advanced countries he has visited.
The NURTW boss urged the federal government to place adequate security on those roads for the safety of road users and workers.
He solicited that commercial buses should be given subsidized rates if the government cannot include them among the categories of vehicles exempted from the tolling.
The categories of vehicles exempted from the tolling include security, diplomatic, ambulances, and tricycles.
Akinsanya called on the government to re-invest funds generated from the tolling to build more highways and renovate existing ones.
The Minister of State for Works, Bello Goronyo, yesterday, said the toll order fee schedule for Abuja-Keffi-Akwanga-Lafayette-Makurdi Federal Highway has been designated as follows: cars-N500; SUV Jeep-N800; minibuses N1000, and multi-axle vehicles, trucks and buses N1600.
However, frequent road users like the commercial light vehicles defined under the Federal Highways Act, will enjoy a 50 percent discount.
Authorized vehicles, pedal vehicles, tricycles, motorcycles, and other modes of two or three-wheel transport used by mainly disadvantaged populations will be offered a 100 percent discount.
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